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So all you TV junkies out there (I am one!), Endemol must be a familiar name among you. No, those who still can’t remember this name, are just not watching enough of television.
So let me tell you about it. Endemol is the International company behind the shows like Fear Factor, Big Brother (Big Boss in [...]

A report by the television rating agency TAM says that the viewers of digital TV spend more time watching Television than those having analogue TV. Digital TV includes DTH and the Conditional Access System (CAS).
TAM data shows that digital TV watchers also watch more number of channels compared to the analogue TV audience. 186 minutes, [...]

The big news today is that Intel and Yahoo have partnered to launch a new interactive TV channel. I went WoW after reading the news. I have always believed that TV, as a consumer device has a lot more potential. Whenever I hear companies (or people) doing some innovative stuff for TV, I am hopeful [...]

Following a non-compliance issue with the foreign direct investment (FDI) norms, the Government may suspend Bharti Telemedia’s DTH license, reports Business Standard. Bharti has been testing its DTH facility in Gurgaon for some time. It used MPEG-4 technology for compression which was technically superior to the existing rivals’ MPEG-2 technology

Being a big TV junkie that I am, it’s natural that I am waiting for the launch of Network 18’s Hindi General Entertainment Channel (GEC) Colors. That I am also a big fan of Akshay Kumar, who is doing a show on the channel, only adds spice to the matter. Plus, Network 18’s growth has been phenomenal. After having a CNBC TV18, CNN-IBN, MTV (Yess, Network 18 owns it). I am sure their channel will be a force to reckon with. Just received this news in the morning that Network 18 has launched a website around its upcoming channel colors

Bharti has been testing 3G services in India for a while now. Now, Bharti is testing the DTH services in Gurgaon, reports Business Standard. Bharti Telemedia is the brand under which the company will be providing the service

We recently caught up with Mr. Rohan Verma, the Head of Marketing for MapmyIndia and the creator of the mapmyindia.com portal and he hinted towards maps moving to the idiot box. 
 
It seems like a logical step for the company primarily because it will add a lot to them in terms of brand awareness (which is largely [...]

We blogged yesterday about regional domains coming to the forefront soon. Not too long ago .IN domains were introduced as an indian domain extension but it had gone far beyond just being that. News has it that lots of international players are booking .in domain name as .in can stand for internet or international and [...]

Nautanki.tv, which started off as an online video channel, has now expanded its services by including games offering to its services. The games will be provided by Games2Win and will be accessible through a widget.
 
Nautanki.tv has been offering video content for online viewing. All the content is original. There is no user generated content (UGC) [...]

ESPN Star Sports has recently introduced Star Sports Mobile, a mobile content service that is similar to Mobile ESPN that was launched across multiple markets in Asia Pacific in May 2006. The service works on WAP and can be downloaded from espnstar.com.
 
The content that ESPN – Star distributes will mainly revolve around the football clubs [...]

Social Networking site Bebo has launched Open Media platform. Using the platform, media companies can host their premium video content on Bebo. The users can provide build a video profile. Users can distribute the videos among each other.
 
Bebo won’t charge anything for all the paid contents from the users. But what is surprising is, it [...]

OK. This I predicted long back. IPTV is the next big thing in TV after DTH. Cable exhausted its capacity to carry channels long time back. Addition of more channels was only degrading the quality of channels. DTH came as a welcome change. The next logical step was to use the existing IP network [...]

For ages now we have been listening about Mobile TV. Different people comprehend this differently. The service that Airtel has been testing in Gurgaon, and even reliance plans to roll out soon is “IPTV”. In this, the internet/telecom network is utilized to deliver TV content to your screens. TV screens. Mobile TV refers to the [...]

Just came across IndianTVSchedule. This is a product which would really appeal to TV Junkies.
So what is IndianTVSchedule? Your one stop source for what’s on Indian TV.
Their website says:Indian TV Schedule is a TV Schedule/Listing site which not only provides the Daily TV Listing but also aggregates information and video content from other sites, providing [...]